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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

We have all gone through dramatic metamorphosis over the last year and almost a year and a half.

We have found that if we had like RIPVEN, we could go on to sleep and slept for a century or more

and awakened, we would have awakened to a very different world.

In many ways our world is very different now than it was even a year and a half ago.

I think it's pretty fair to say we are now living in an utterly pagan nation.

By all measures it is a pagan nation.

Even the church like ancient Israel has decided to worship God on the one hand and worship

idols on the other hand as it has bowed its knee to cultural gods.

Truth is replaced by lies.

Love is replaced by hate.

Peace is replaced by anger.

And we are looking around asking what the solutions are.

There are people who tell us the solutions are political.

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